By MAUREEN ODIWUOR
A Teachers’ Savings and Credit Society in Kakamega is to pay Sh1.4 million for terminating three employees illegally.
The three were dismissed from employment after Sh1.1 million disappeared from Kakamega Teachers Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Ltd.
The Kenya Union of Commercial Food and Allied Workers filed the suit on behalf of Adelaide Lichira, Ann Masiva and Sammy Malova, citing unlawful termination of employment in January 5, 2011.
In her judgment, Kisumu Industrial Court Judge Helen Wasilwa ordered that each claimant be paid a year’s salary as compensation of the unlawful termination.
The first claimant Lichina, whose monthly salary was Sh21, 045 will get Sh252, 540 while Masiva who used to earn Sh24,790 will be given Sh297, 480. Mr Malova is to receive Sh278, 400.
The Judge also ordered that each of the claimants be given a pay equivalent to half a months salary for each year they worked; the first claimant who worked for 18 years will receive Sh189, 405.
Masiva who served for 23 years will get Sh285, 085 while the third respondent who only worked for one year will get Sh11, 600. In total the three will receive Sh1, 383,545.
The court ordered that each of the claimants be issued with a certificate of service and their former employer pays for the cost they incurred on the case.
The fraud is suspected to have been committed between February and April 2008.
